
| NASA Center: |
Headquarters |
| Image # : |
statecommission1957 |
| Date : |
1957
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Title
The State Commission for the Sputnik Satellite
Full Description
The State Commission for the Sputnik satellite shown in 1957.
The State Commission was a temporary ad-hoc body comprised of
various representatives of the Soviet military, industry, and the
design bureaus. The State Commission remained in existence only
during the testing phase of Sputnik, serving as a primary conduit
for communication with party leaders on the state of the program.
Seated left to right are: Ivan Bulychev, Grigoriy Udarov,
Aleksandr Mrykin, Mikolay Pilyugin, Mstislav Keldysh, Vasiliy
Mishin, Leonid Voskresenskiy, Vasiliy Ryabikov, Mitrofan Medelin,
Sergey Korolev, Konstantin Rudnev, Valentin Glushko, and Valdimir
Barmin.
Standing left to right are: Aleksey Bogomolov, Pavel
Trubachev, Viktor Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Vasilyev, Konstantin
Bushuyev, Aleksandr Nosov, Ivan Borisenko, Aleksey Nesterenko,
Georgiy Pashkov, Mikhail Ryazanskiy, and Viktor Kurbatov.
Keywords
State Commission Sputnik Soviet Union Bulychev Udarov Mrykin
Pilyugin Keldysh Mishin Voskresenskiy Ryabikov Medelin Korolev
Rudnev Glushko Barmin Bogomolov Trubachev Kuznetsov Vasilyev
Bushuyev Nosov Borisenko Nesterenko Pashkov Ryazanskiy Kurbatov
Subject Category
Soviet People-Pioneers,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
HQ
- Center Number:
statecommission1957
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000165
Source Information
- Original Source: DIGITAL
- Source/Capture Information: Asif Siddiqi
| Resolution | Format | Width (Pixels) | Height (Pixels) | Size (KBytes) |
Thumbnail |
JPEG |
63 |
28 |
4 |
Small |
JPEG |
448 |
197 |
60 |
Medium |
JPEG |
1050 |
462 |
295 |
Large |
JPEG |
2100 |
923 |
962 |
Publication Information
Image from the files of Asif Siddiqi. Image and caption from
Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-
1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408) by Asif A. Siddiqi.
Please note that the image number assigned to this image is not
an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes only.
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